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NEWARK, Ohio — A Thornville man faces a charge of murder after a November bar brawl that left
one man dead.

Jamie M. Calendine, 35, was indicted by a Licking County grand jury on Wednesday on one count of
murder and one count of felonious assault. He is accused of fatally punching Shane Hillis, 40, in
November outside a Hebron bar.

Greg Collins, a detective with the Licking County sheriff’s office, reported that Hillis, also
of Thornville, got into a shouting match with another man inside the Mill Dam Bar at 3982 National
Rd. in Hebron. The argument was taken outside, where it turned physical.

During the course of the fight between Hillis and the other man, authorities say Calendine ran
up behind Hillis and punched him in the back of the head. Hillis was discovered by Hebron medics
unconscious in the parking lot.

He was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark, then transferred to Grant Medical Center in
Columbus, where he was in a coma until he died in January.

Calendine was previously charged with one count of felonious assault, but those charges were
dropped after Hillis died.